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REALIZE WHAT YOU ARE:
untouched. You reach that core of peace where tranquillity resides. In meditation you reach the summit of joy and bliss. You find that there is nothing in the world which can compare with that blissful peak moment.
Who will find these beautiful experiences, if not human beings? Only as human beings can we reach this height of tranquillity. There comes a moment when we experience the universe as our home. Then we transcend any feeling that the universe is a hostile place where we do not naturally belong. With the help of meditation, we come home and settle into our own real Self. Now we are not at home; we are all in separate houses. You know the difference between a house and a home. Houses are made of bricks; homes are made of feelings. When you have a guest, you use the expression “Feel at home”; but are you really at home with yourself?
When you meditate, you find your own real home, inside yourself. When you learn to experience this, outside things do not disturb you as they do now. You develop the power to keep them out. You do not allow them to disturb your peace. You discover a castle inside where you are safe from all attacks. This is the whole idea of meditation. Meditation is not a religion; it is a means of learning the art of living, growing and communicating.
Now you are very vulnerable, easily hurt and upset. One person can make you laugh, another person can make you cry. One can make you dance, another can put you down. You may think you are independent, but you are reacting to somebody else's words, emotions, actions and reactions. You don't know when you will weep or laugh, be elated or depressed. Can you truthfully say now. "It is up
